Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Content: Prime meridians: New York and Greenwich.

Content: Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings.

Content: Includes text, table of currents, and 4 coastal panoramas.

Statement of responsibility: founded upon a trigonometrical survey under the direction of F.R. Hassler, superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States ; triangulation by James Ferguson and Edmund Blunt, assistants ; the hydrography under the direction of Thomas R. Gedney, lieutenant U.S. Navy ; the topography by C. Renard, T.A. Jenkins & B.F. Sands assists. ; A.D. Bache superintendent ; verified by Lieut. A.A. Humphreys, topl. engrs. assistant, U.S. Coast Survey.

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Item timeline of events

1845: Issued

2015: Digitized

2016: Found by you!

2017

MLA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division,
The New York Public Library. "Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs : [with colored manuscript additions to show positions of troops and fleets at the Battle of Long Island, 1776]"
The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
1845.
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee0a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division,
The New York Public Library. "Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs : [with colored manuscript additions to show positions of troops and fleets at the Battle of Long Island, 1776]"
New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Accessed December 9, 2016.
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee0a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division,
The New York Public Library.
(1845).
Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs : [with colored manuscript additions to show positions of troops and fleets at the Battle of Long Island, 1776]
Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee0a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

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